Designers Republic?

[Shem]

yuusen:
uhm....well...my sister listens to it all the time...and.....you know....uhmm....*suddenly points the air, screaming* LOOK! THERE'S AN EAGLE FLYING RIGHT AT YA *runs away*

[infoxicated]

i saw the lyric quoted in an indy car game review at eurogamer today, so it had made its ominous return.

Which Indy Car game review was that?

Been looking everywhere for a decent preview of IndyCar Series 2005, but all I can find on Eurogamer are preview odds and ends.

[G'Kyl]

Been looking for a review myself. I only found one in German. In case someone might wanna take a look: http://www.axbserver.de/axb/artikel.php?id=339. Maybe you can run it through one of the online transla.tion programs... ;) Their bottom line is: Great game, but only for a limited audience (surprise, surprise). Graphics and sound are so-so (again, I say) and we now have XBL-multiplayer for up to 12 drivers. They gave it 82%. The only problem is that the reviewer hardly ever mentions part 1 and what has changed from there to "2005" (i.e. has probably never laid hands on the predecessor), except for saying that 2005 has multiplayer support (actual news anyone? ;] ).
My guess would be: Better stick with IndyCar Series until 2005 becomes affordable. It seems to be a great IndyCar game, but so was part 1, which I still play enthusiastically.

Ben

[yuusen]

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i checked back to eurogamer to see which one it was. turns out its series 2003.

but by the way... XBOX WILL EAT ITSELF.
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[G'Kyl]

Ah, I don't think downward compatibility is a must for consoles. First, the XBox wasn't THAT much of a success anyway and second, they better deliver a great machine without making compromises in order to let ppl play their old games on the Box2. Also, and apart from PS2, which consoles ever let you play games from their predecessor machines? I can only think of one other - GBA.

[yuusen]

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yes, a very good point g'kyl.

however, if micro$oft (i said i would never do that, oh well) plan to release the xbox2 way before the ps3—making it the first 5th generation console on the market, counting from the nes—then it would be possible, no, probable, no, definite that it will be compared to the ps2 (the first of the 4th gen consoles). ps2 had back-compat, xbox2 wont, customers will notice the difference, theyll shell out anyway, play the same games they played the year before only spiffier, carry on none the wiser. okay, thats coming from a pessimistic and slightly cynical viewpoint.

from a developer viewpoint (and i am reciting something i read recently, cant quite remember where) the xbox2 will need hugely fast hardware to develop for. hardware that isnt easily nor cheaply available. suddenly, all the developers will need to start learning about and developing for another i.e, additional (remember, the xbox2 will be sold alongside the xbox), not just progressive platform. that means more money shelled out. will the devco.s like this? i cant tell for i am but a lonely shepherd that likes to push polygons around a glass bowl and cannot project nor predict the high level decisions made by international, million dollar creative companies.

what i can guess is that the xbox2 may even be totally overlooked (again, just reciting in my own voice) while people wait for the much cooler ps3 and that it will only be until the ps3 starts rolling into developers laps that the hardware needed to develop games of such computational intensity will be practically viable. then i reckon is the time that xbox2 will start to be taken seriously, so long as theres some left after all the chewing.
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[G'Kyl]

Been looking everywhere for a decent preview of IndyCar Series 2005, but all I can find on Eurogamer are preview odds and ends.

Hi infox, just stumbled over the Gamespot Review. Must have gotten online today, since I last checked their page last night.

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/driving...05/review.html

[Lance]

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''ps2 (the first of the 4th gen consoles).''
the Dreamcast was the first of the 4th gen, the ubermaschinen

and a lot of people sat on their wallets and waited for the PS2. wrong thing to do in my opinion
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[infoxicated]

Hi infox, just stumbled over the Gamespot Review. Must have gotten online today, since I last checked their page last night.

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/driving...05/review.html

Thanks, my friend - I already bought the game a week or so ago after getting a refund for Driver 3/10

[G'Kyl]

Oha! Could you maybe post a short review and most of all give an idea of what exactely is different to ICS 2003 in terms of the driving model, AI, set-up options and the like? I found nothing in the two reviews I have read so far and am a bit short on money to buy the game without knowing precisely what's in it.

[infoxicated]

I'll try to knock up something today if I can, but I'm going away for four days, so it might need to wait until next week.

[G'Kyl]

Don't hurry, I don't plan on buying the game before next month or so. Though I am looking forward to what you have to say about the game. :)

Oh, and since Gamespy and IGN now too have their reviews of ICS2005 online, here's a small excerpt from the latter: "What I found very, very helpful is the Masterclass feature, i.e. the tutorial mode. [...] I raced around like a fool before hitting this mode, which explained the importance of [...] how to use the track's colored sections to your benefit. I never knew that the blackened sections of the track contain burnt off rubber that fills in the grooves of the track; this is important because those sections provide more grip than the lighter sections." I was like 'Tell me I haven't just read that from a race game reviewer...' when I realized what I'd seen. ;-)

Ben

[Lion]

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i do not intend to start yet another discussion of DR since there have been more than enough of those here already, but there is one thing i've not seen an answer to: what does the 'mi' in mitDR stand for? or should the question be what does 'mit' stand for? surely not Massachusetts Institute of Technology

yeah always thought "mitDR" was "made in the Designers Republic"...

...and the newbie takes this further offtopic...
I always thought it was the mighty DR... that's how I read it on the back of the w'o"2097 soundtrack album: "THE miTDR."